January 2019

Original Gypsy Fair

Tuesday 1st January - Friday 4th January 2019

Whangamata Area School

The Original gypsy fair is pleased to be returning to Whangamata for the 2018-19 Season (as we have done for more than a quarter century).

"For four days only" As in the past, we will be bringing an interesting range of Handcrafted products sold exclusively at the Original gypsy fair, many of which are made before your very eyes. Come along to Whangamata Area School!

Mercury Bay Boating Club New Years Race

Tuesday 1st January 2019

90 Buffalo Beach Road - Mercury Bay

Head along to the Mercury Bay Boating Club New Years Race at 90 Buffalo Beach Road from 11am - 4pm. Come as a spectator or enter the event yourself! Entries are accepted up to 15 minutes the start time on channel #77. BBQ and refreshments at the clubhouse afterwards.

Cooks Beach Summer Gala

Friday 4th January 2019

Cooks Beach Reserve

Join in the annual fun at the annual Cooks Beach Summer Gala for the whole family at Cooks Beach near Whitianga with over 100 stalls. Come and enjoy games, rides, music, and the daisy dung drop!

The Cooks Beach Summer Gala Fundraiser for Whenuakite School is a must do event on the Mercury Bay Calendar and draws crowds from near and far to enjoy this festive market that is held every year on the 4th January at the Cooks Beach Reserve.

Get your gang together and find yourself a bargain at one of the 100 plus stalls – because you may need an extra pair of hands to carry home your wares!

Pauanui Antique Fair

Friday 4th January 2019

Pauanui Sports and Recreation Club

Pop over to Pauanui for our Annual Pauanui Antique Fair. Held each year for the past 22 years to support the Pauanui Surf lifesaving club. Brings together Antique Dealers from all over the North Island selling antiques and collectibles including jewellery, furniture, chinaware, silver, collectibles and much more. Fair is from 10am - 5pm and you can find us at the Pauanui Sports and Recreation Club - 31 Sheppard Ave in Pauanui.

Family Golf & Croquet Fun Day

Friday 4th January 2019

Tairua Golf & Country Club

Tairua School Food and Wine Festival

Saturday 5th January 2019

Tairua School

Featuring The Jordon Luck Band - the Tairua School Wine & Food Festival is a major event for the Tairua local community and an important fundraiser for the Tairua school. Celebrating its 25th Anniversary this January, the Festival is a favourite staple of the Coromandel Summer bringing together artisan markets, terrific music, sumptuous food, boutique beverages, wines & beers, kids entertainment and great New Zealand produce. Music acts this year are:

JORDAN LUCK BAND

Daughters of Ally

Sonic Delusion

Majic Paora

Tickets are $10 - $20 with kids under 18 FREE admission. Gates open at 9am. For more information, bus timetables and maps, visit their website! See you at Tairua School - 110 Main Rd, Tairua.

David Brighton’s Space Oddity - David Bowie Tribute Show

Sunday 6th January 2019

Mercury Bay Club - Whitianga

Credited as the worlds best David Bowie impersonator, David Brighton provides one of the most entertaining acts ever to hit the stage! Featuring all you Bowie favourites. To buy tickets - call 0800 BUY TIX.

Fat Freddy’s Drop

Monday 7th January 2019

Thames Racecourse

Getting high on hope, Fat Freddy’s Drop are releasing a brand new single 'Trickle Down' on July 20.

Freddy’s annual summer roady around New Zealand in Jan 2019 gets a super-charged tune up with the addition of some incredible tour bus buddies; DJ legend Norman Jay MBE direct from London plus local super stars Ladi6, Salmonella Dub featuring Tiki Taane, The Black Seeds and Troy Kingi with more to be announced. With fresh tour destinations added to the menu, Freddys are are about to serve up one massive summer tour.

Brand new track 'Trickle Down' is an electronic-driven reaction to the politics of the day – the false economic principle of wealth trickling down from the 1% to the 99%. As they sing of running out of patience while waiting for the rain to fall, a confident, steady beat propels us forward as a sign of promise.

Recorded at the band’s Bays studio in their Wellington hometown, the track arose from a series of jams and is a slice of the new album they’re cooking up as a follow-up to their earlier releases; Bays, Blackbird, Dr Boondigga & The Big BW and record breaking Based on a True Story.

The event is an all ages admission and held at Thames Racecourse - bus tickets are available for buses from Tairua.

Business House Twilight Golf

9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th January 2019

Tairua Golf & Country Club

Peak to Peak Endurance Race

Saturday 12th January 2019

Tairua Surf Lifesaving Club

The event begins at the Tairua Surf Life Saving Club, where athletes will make their way up Tairua's Mount Paku via the Oceania Coastal Track to the summit reaching the trig point. Athletes then descend to the Paku Wharf where they enter the water and swim across to Pauanui beach and make their way up mount Pauanui to return back to Tairua where they will cross the finish line at the Tairua Marina Bar and Grill.

The Healers Quest

Friday 25th January - Monday 28th January 2019

Te Moata Retreat Tairua

Would you like to know all is well?

Would you lit to deepen your connection to yourself?

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The Healers Quest allows a deep holding and opening of the pathways within the body to clear and animate your Hearts Intelligence. Finding your True North and being able to always access it is the foundation to authentic wellbeing. Turn your Lifes questions and your life Healing Quest, through the body's alchemy into directional Gold.

Jenni and Beverley will take you on your Healers Quest over four days igniting your Principal Soul Grid.

Expect to be Deeply Held, Expect to be Loved, Expect to walk within the Labyrinth, Expect to Understand yourself better, Expect to shift outmoded Beliefs and Conditioning, Expect to connect to yourself in Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Sound, Movement, Body and Heart.Expect The UnexpectedDeposit $300 Price: $888Time: Friday 25th January 12pm - Monday 28th January 1pm

For more information including accommodation details and booking your tickets, call 07 868 8798 or follow their page on Facebook.